We bloody did it! In the days before Christmas we posted over 700 parcels, and now people all over the world are reading books and watching films, and I’m a bit taken aback, in a really good way. I realise that I thought everyone was buying them out of kindness […]
It’s been grim few months. Four, five, six months. Maybe a year really, since I passed the self-imposed deadline for finishing this project. I set it arbitrarily during the Kickstarter campaign, thinking I’ve never had six months to do one project before – what luxury! – there’s surely nothing I […]
They say starting is half the battle, but finishing is way more than half so I’m not sure how the old grindstone arithmetic is working there. Here’s my analogy: the house is now built, watertight, functional, ready to move in, but I just seem to be spending months scurrying breathlessly […]
Oh! Hello 2015! Somehow or other you are here. Let Flo and me see your new year in with a little gentle music… This time last year I wrote about all I learned in 2013 – all the ways that the unusual lifestyle had served to make the year feel very […]
Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in the pie, Chico’s in his hayshed, eating bread and honey, Hannah’s in her counting house, frightened by the money… It’s been almost three weeks since the Kickstarter ended in a blaze of white-knuckle adrenaline […]
Several people have asked me for a voucher they can give their dear donkey/adventure/Wales-loving kith and kin, so I’ve fashioned one out of the notebook doodles of five weeks of running the Kickstarter! You can download it here: Download the donkey voucher here print it out and fill it in. […]
New print! New print! For people who can’t choose just three for the £100 print, here’s a choice of my favourite pictures from the walk. The prints are beautifully printed A3, gicleé prints with archive quality inks so they won’t fade in your lifetime. There will be three options to […]
On Tuesday we hit the halfway mark of this great big Kickstarter hullabaloo – a gigantic, knee-wobbling, heart-swelling £14,000, worthy of all sorts of metaphors. Like hitting the halfway mark on the walk, I feel jubilant, a bit overwhelmed, and far from being out-of-the-woods! But the figure kept steaming onward, […]
I’ve never pretended to have any idea of what’s going on in Chico’s mind, and he certainly is his own donkey – an enigma wrapped in a woolly winter coat, wrapped in Welsh mud. It’s unsurprising that an attempt to put words in his mouth could only go amusingly awry… […]
Chico gets on Ramblings with Clare Balding!Chico and I are about to be on BBC Radio 4’s
Getting a donkey to an islandOur little appearance on Wonders of the Coast Path is
Island nesting: the imaginary movieThis is all out of order, like leafing through the
Self-islanding with a donkeyNice to get the chance to dust off the donkey!
Free the mothers! We are not the number-one parents!Anyone who’s been watching the whole donkey story
Walking to Hay FestivalWe walked to Hay! Ursula Martin (One Woman Walks) and
Triple-bill speaking tour next weekend! Plus, Hay Festival. Eep!I have talking dates coming up! I’m beside
